I don’t know much. About forevers or nevers. I am a giggle filled coconut with easy way outs and friends at sunset in different time zones moving to kygo and mojitos. I am really fortunate. Rarely frightened. Sometimes it’s okay to mix it up. I am spending a few days in silver beds surrounded by…
You Win Some – You Lose Some. (And if you’re smart, you let a lot go)
I’m currently sitting at the Ronald Reagan Airport in Washington DC. Writing this on my phone. Looking out at the city skyline. Eating a turkey sandwhich. (I’m so American now you can call me Matishiqa.) It’s a been a whirlwind of a week. We had three solid days of planning meetings in our USA headquarters,…
Dream Diary
In 2013 I had a bit of a ‘Dream Diary’ Debacle some may say. I’m sure it’s a common pickle. I was living in Sydney working in the PR department of a POPular Radio Station. (More Taytay Sweezy than Lil Weezy.) One Thursday, my boss left the office to attend an urgent meeting in Melbourne….
Heart Child
As Originally Seen in Current Issue of Mai Life Style Magazine… HEART CHILD By Matisse Walkden-Brown People usually don’t like talking about their internal fear, their deepest sadness, their fragility. The things that rattle our bones, reach beyond our learned thoughts and talk straight to the soul of our inner 8 year old’s who…
Growing Pains
When I was about 13 years old I remember my legs hurting during the night. They would ache. Stretching and extending and pushing my muscles to the limit. Beginning their journey to rise (quite literally) to the 6 foot tall challenge. All unbeknownst to me of course. Growing Pains. Don’t get me wrong, I was…
I have just wrapped up one of the most amazing days of my life
I am now in my Bob Marley Rasta pants and borrow sun-bleached surf tee, inside my cabin on the crew deck of the Rainbow Warrior. I have new epic shells on my desk, another island to add to the “must come back” list, more people to hug when I see them again and a brain-space…
You Can’t Sink A Rainbow
“Perhaps you can’t keep a Pacific Islander from smiling either. And that is something to be treasured, not tested.” Blog post here: http://www.greenpeace.org.au/blog/a-warm-welcome-for-the-rainbow-warrior-in-vanuatu/#more-9841
Dear Blog. We are okay. And on board the Rainbow Warrior. In Vanuatu. We are all good.
Dear Blog. I haven’t forgotten you. If anything I think of you most days. I don’t think about what I want to use you for, what I need you to help me say, or even how you are doing if we are being honest. I think about you with gratitude. Because I am writing. Everyday….
ISLAND WARRIORS … SING A LONG
Last week my colleague and I went to Kiribati. Kiribati is here: You may need to zoom. I swear it’s there though. We, like most ‘foreigners’, were there for work surrounding Climate Change. I was standing on the edge of the causeway on Wednesday in fact, with the video team, when a bus full of…
One Body One Love
It’s not very often you find yourself in a job that makes you cry on a daily basis. For all the right reasons that is… Not because your boss is mean, or you are overloaded and stressed, or because your ex-boyfriend who works in the finance department flirts with the receptionist, Sue, right in front…
Sending The Power Of Hope To Vanuatu
With a heavy heart and complete commitment to work towards the end of human contribution to Climate Change…. I send my love and prayers to our Pacific brothers and sisters in Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tuvalu and everyone else affected by Cyclone Pam. BLOG ENTRY IS HERE FOR A CHANGE…. http://www.greenpeace.org.au XXX Matisse XXX
Grudges aren’t my thing. And turns out Judges aren’t either.
I’m going to tell you about last week. It was raining against my window and my heart was soaked. There were cyclones. One in the sky. The meanest of the mean. Her name was Pam. She was coming for us and then decided to let us off easy. There were others though. There were typhoons…
